{"id":1618266,"date":"2022-08-21T18:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618266"},"modified":"2022-08-21T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T22:17:12","slug":"tv-ceo-insults-game-of-thrones-actress-and-the-fans-unleash-their-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tv-ceo-insults-game-of-thrones-actress-and-the-fans-unleash-their-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"TV CEO Insults \u2018Game Of Thrones\u2019 Actress \u2014 And The Fans Unleash Their Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftv-ceo-insults-game-of-thrones-actress-and-the-fans-unleash-their-fury%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Foxtel CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/emilia-clarke-australian-tv-ceo-insult_n_62fe907be4b0f48a02058056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Delany<\/a> landed in hot water last week, angering a legion of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/we-told-you-not-to-name-your-dog-khaleesi-peter-dinklage-says-game-of-thrones-fans-shouldnt-have-been-surprised-by-the-ending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game of Thrones<\/a>\u201d fans when he referred to actress <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/game-of-thrones-star-says-its-remarkable-shes-able-to-speak-after-suffering-two-life-threatening-brain-aneurysms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emilia Clarke<\/a> as \u201cdumpy\u201d at a premiere event for the series spin-off \u201cHouse of Dragons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delaney, who runs the Australian television company, admitted that he had been late to the \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d party and that at first, he hadn\u2019t really understood the level of hype that surrounded it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018What\u2019s this show with the short, dumpy girl walking into the fire?&#8217;\u201d he said, referring to Clarke\u2019s character Daenerys Targaryen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like he was expecting us to laugh along,\u201d one person who attended the event\u00a0<a class=\"js-entry-link cet-external-link\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2022\/08\/17\/foxtel-emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-short-dumpy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"told Crikey\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"62fe907be4b0f48a02058056\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2022\/08\/17\/foxtel-emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-short-dumpy\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">told Australian news outlet Crikey<\/a>, \u201cbut people in the room were obviously shocked by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I was there for this, and turned to my mate for clarification as I simply didn\u2019t believe someone would say that on mic,\u201d film critic Travis Johnson added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yeah, I was there for this, and turned to my mate for clarification as I simply didn&#8217;t believe someone would say that on mic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GtOK67GJxh\">https:\/\/t.co\/GtOK67GJxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Travis Johnson (@CelluloidWhisky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelluloidWhisky\/status\/1559883318908268544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author EK Johnson noted, \u201cI will fully acknowledge that I am just overprotective of Emilia Clarke, but IMAGINE being a TV CEO at an event for a GoT spin-off, and the first adjective you can come up with for her is \u2018dumpy.\u2019 Men do not deserve these kind of positions or paycheques.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it that someone (that looks) like @PatrickDelany\u00a0feel that it\u2019s ok to make derogatory references to one of the greatest women of our time. Emilia Clarke was an unknown actress playing an unknown character and she made her infinitely iconic. What would your wife say?\u201d @Hardbackwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardbackWriter\/status\/1561251959482499075\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine insulting Emilia Clarke. She\u2019s legit like the sweetest celebrity ever if you watch even one of her interviews. The woman is impossible to dislike,\u201d @chronokatie <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChronoKatie\/status\/1561073659497906176\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery man who insults a woman by commenting on her physical appearance should be very closely scrutinized by masses of people, his likeness magnified, every flaw &#038; cruelty exposed for commentary,\u201d author Joyce Carol Oates <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyceCarolOates\/status\/1560997368530616322\">remarked<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s like police brutality \u2014 they will do it, as long as they can get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Foxtel spokesperson responded to the backlash with an official statement, saying, \u201cThe aim was to convey that for him, \u2018Games of Thrones\u2019 was something very different for television in 2011 and that Emilia Clarke went from relatively unknown to one of the most recognized and most-loved actors in television and film.\u00a0On behalf of Mr. Delany, the Foxtel Group apologizes if his remarks were misunderstood and caused any offense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany landed in hot water last week, angering a legion of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d fans when he referred to actress Emilia Clarke as \u201cdumpy\u201d at a premiere event for the series spin-off \u201cHouse of Dragons.\u201d Delaney, who runs the Australian television company, admitted that he had been late to the \u201cGame of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1618268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}